Change/use different node version on Ubuntu

For Ubuntu NVM (Node Version Manager) works best. Therefore, I will recommend NVM instead of others e.g (n).

Installation and usage is very simple. I will extract the steps from the NVM github repository page.

Run following commands to install nvm:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh | bash

Enable the nvm command by running:

source ~/.bashrc

To check proper installation run the following command

command -v nvm 

It should output nvm. If correct output is generated then we can install different versions of node using the command:

nvm install v8.11.0

OR

nvm install v8.10.0

Now when a different node version is installed it can be used by using the command:

nvm use 8.10.0